Story+1978-12-03+Carbondale,+IL

“Where did you guys get all of them goddamn green things?...let’s go, give me some echo, Bobby…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, intro to “High School Confidential”**

“We’re gonna be playing for a long time so you guys ought to sit down there or find your seats, alright?...so you’re not standing in anybody’s way…was anybody in St. Paul when we played there last, last week?…what you got?...a cowboy hat (the band plays a short snippet of some cowboy song)…we’re gonna try to play this ‘cause this guy gave me this cowboy hat, this is the guy, this is a song originally done by…uh…if we screw this one up a little bit, it’s because we ain’t played it in a long time since we’ve been to Texas …alright, ready? go ahead, Max (Max starts drumming) this song was originally done by Bobby Fueller Four…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, intro to “I Fought the Law”**

“That’s all the country music we know (chuckles)…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, after “I Fought the Law”**

“Alright. . . This is Darkness On The Edge Of Town. . . “
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, after “I Fought the Law” **

“This is for, this is for all the folks from Benton and uh…the guys from Fort Marshall High School…here’s a song, uh, called “Independence Day,” this is for anybody who left home this year…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, intro to “Independence Day”**

“You can’t just prove it once, you gotta prove it all night…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, intro to “Prove It All Night”**

“(Audience member: “Thunder Road!”) Yeah, we’re gonna do that one, alright. . . this is for, uh…(?)(chuckles). . . this is, uh. . . It’s the green thing brigade over there (chuckles). . . what are those things? they illegal?...oh no! (laughs from the crowd)…(chuckles)…I don’t wanna take ‘em from you so why don’t you guys hold on to them, alright? . . . this is a song, this is uh, Frank _____, who never had a car, here's "Racing in the Street" (crowd cheers). . . "
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, intro to “Racing in the Street” **

“Back in, uh, 1974 I walked by this movie theater…and, uh, they had this big poster in the window of this Robert Mitchum-movie… and it was about these moonshine runners down South…I never saw the movie but I stole the title and I wrote this song and uh…I didn’t think there was ever any place that was really like, you know, like the, like the song or this title…me and Steve, we were, we were in Nevada about a year ago and we were driving down a highway and off to the side of the road there was this, uh, there was this house this Indian had built out of stuff he’d scavenged off the desert and out in front he had this big picture of Geronimo and a big sign over the top that said “Landlord” and he had this big white sign painted in red that said “This is the land of peace, love, justice and no mercy,” it pointed down this dirt road that said “Thunder Road”…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, intro to “Thunder Road”**

“Big Man on the saxophone (crowd cheers) Steve Van Zandt, Roy Bittan, Garry Tallent, Max Weinberg, Dan Federici - E Street Band (crowd cheers) we’re gonna, we’re gonna take a 20-minute break and we’ll be back to do another set for you, ok? (crowd cheers) we’ll see you in about 20 minutes…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, after “Jungleland”**

“Alright, ready for the second round? (crowd cheers) Before we start, I’d like to ask you guys a favor, I’d like to ask you, all you guys that got these green things, if you look around, you see that there’s other people in here, if you would not throw ‘em, I would really appreciate it, alright? (crowd cheers) I don’t want people to get bopped on the head, I don’t want, if they hit you in the eye or something, you could hurt somebody (?) somebody hit Max in the bass drum so (chuckles) so please don’t throw those things, I appreciate it very much, alright. . . here’s a new song called “The Ties That Bind”…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, intro to “The Ties That Bind” **

“ . . . Buddy (chuckles). . . Yeah, right? So these guys can see behind you, okay? . . . Squish ___?__ __?___ (chuckles). . . alright…let me set the scene for you…it’s a cold night in December, snow’s falling on the Boardwalk…way down in the end I see a strange figure coming towards me…(intro music starts)…it was way down in the end (chuckles)…I mean way, way down in the end…way, way down (chuckles)…it was Christmas Eve (crowd cheers)…and all of sudden (crowd cheers)(Clarence: “Ho, ho!”)… (…) Big Man…you think I could get a new, new guitar?...(?)…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, intro to “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” **

“This is a song that was originally recorded on Robert Gordon’s second album, it’s called “Fire”…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, intro to “Fire”**

“This next song…this is a new song, this is what happens…you wake up…and you find out you’ve been shot point blank…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, intro to “Point Blank”**

". . . Big Man! . . . Let me tell you . . . I call her up . . . she ain’t home . . . I knocked on her door . . . she ain’t home . . . I send her a letter . . . no reply . . . I just wanna lay down . . . and cry . . . I drive by her house, when it’s late at night . . . I see them silhouettes, on the window shade . . . sometimes, I get so mad . . . I get so mad . . . I GET MAD! . . . like Al Capone, (?) . . . I GET MAD! . . . like Jesse James, wanna steal all her money . . . I GET MAD! . . . like Pretty Boy Floyd . . . I GET MAD! . . . like _____ ____ Killer . . . I GET MAD! . . . like Smokin’ Joe . . . I GET MAD! . . . like … Popeye (Fan: ‘Yeah, drop his ass!’) . . . Sometimes, I get so mad, I just . . . I just . . . I just wanna . . . (band stops) . . . I just wanna . . . I feel like I wanna (crowd: What?) . . . I feel like I just wanna (crowd: What?) . . . I feel like I just got to (crowd: What?). . . I feel like I just wanna (crowd: What?). . . I just don’t know. . .“
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, "I Get Mad!" in “She's The One”**

“Alright, here’s to you…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, intro to “Born to Run”**

“Alright…I got…I just spoke to the hall manager, he asked me to make this emergency announcement – please bring it down (music stops)…he asked me to announce that if there’s anyone in the hall tonight that has a weak heart or a weak stomach, could they please during the next section of this song step out into the lobby as it might be dangerous to your health (crowd cheers) I warned you about it, don’t sue me!...you see, it ain’t so bad when me and the Big Man do this…and it ain’t so bad…when me and the Big Man do this…and you might even get off with light injury and a short trip to the emergency room when me and the Big Man…do this…now…you wanna stick around and risk your life…when you do this…”
 * 03.12.78 Carbondale, IL, middle of “Detroit Medley”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//